Summary

For my Theoretical Foundations of Human Centered Design and Engineering course, my group created a website to describe the application of three HCI theories to Google Maps. The theories we explored were distributed cognition, semiotic engineering, and feminist HCI.

A screenshot from the distributed cognition page, with a diagram comparing distributed cognition to traditional cognitive theories.

Problem

For this assignment, we were asked to choose a web-based technology and to analyze that technology from the perspective of three or more human-computer interaction theories, focusing on the unique insights that each theory helps reveal.